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Enthusiasts who’ve decried the lack of a hatchback variant for the 2015 Subaru WRX may just get their wish. According to reports out of Australia, Subaru is seriously considering bringing back the hatchback WRX due to strong demand here in the United States.

Speaking with Australia’s Motoring.com.au, Subaru’s WRX project general manager Masuo Takatsu told the outlet that a five-door 2015 WRX hatchback was still under consideration. “We have received strong interest from the U.S., where the hatchback was 50 percent [of previous-generation WRX] sales, so we’re now considering [a new hatchback],” Takatsu said.

When we contacted Subaru of America for comment regarding the return of the WRX hatch, a spokesman told us the U.S. arm was in the dark. “We do not know about, nor do we have, any plans for a WRX hatch,” the spokesman said, “Takatsu San is the product general manager of the WRX, but this is not something he has discussed with us.”

Nevertheless, with North America being Subaru’s largest market for the new WRX (followed by Japan, then Australia), strong consumer demand in the ‘States could be just what Subaru needs to get funding for a WRX wagon. When the 2015 WRX was launched, Subaru told us that the reason it only offers a sedan was because it only had so much money to develop the new WRX and WRX STI, and rather than splitting the budget, it wanted to spend more on making the WRX stand apart from the Impreza it’s based on.